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Latest Articles: Editorial
Echoes of Gen Westmoreland and Vietnam
Post Date: 2007-09-10 00:43:20 by tom007
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Echoes of Gen Westmoreland and Vietnam By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington Published: September 9 2007 19:17 | Last updated: September 9 2007 19:17 There is a sense of déjà vu surrounding Monday’s Congressional testimony by General David Petraeus. In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson recalled his top general in Vietnam to defend the war against criticism from Congress. Back in Washington, General William Westmoreland said the military had reached a point where “the end begins to come into view”. There would be “light at the end of the tunnel”, but “mopping up the enemy” might take two more years. Forty years on, General Petraeus will ...
Conservative group: Craig's bathroom arrest is effectively declaration of 'war on the West' (From the "Ya Can't Make It Up" file)
Post Date: 2007-09-08 00:55:42 by tom007
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Conservative group: Craig's bathroom arrest is effectively declaration of 'war on the West' Nick Juliano Published: Friday September 7, 2007 Submit to Netscape Print This Email This Airport spokesman tells RAW STORY police were trying to ensure 'safe' restrooms A conservative group has come to Sen. Larry Craig's defense, saying his arrest in an airport restroom amid allegations he tried to solicit sex was an example of overzealous police profiling and entrapment. The American Land Rights Association, a longtime supporter of the Idaho Republican, is calling for a boycott of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, where Craig was arrested in June. The ...
Pope Flies in Style
Post Date: 2007-09-07 23:15:36 by tom007
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Pope Flies in Style By David Axe EmailSeptember 06, 2007 | 8:32:16 AMCategories: Planes, Copters, Blimps blog post photoPope Benedict XVI will ride in a specially outfitted Blackhawk chopper (pictured) when he visits Austria this weekend, Ares reports. The helicopter features lavish new seats emblazoned with the papal crest. And that's not all: Throughout the three-day visit and particularly during the helicopter transits, the heavens above will be secured by Northrop Grumman F-5E air defense fighters of the Austrian air force. ... Says defense minister Norbert Darabos: "The safety of the Pope has the highest priority."
Open Letter to the Presidents of Russia and China
Post Date: 2007-09-07 20:46:14 by Brian S
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To: the honorable Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation and to the honorable Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China. Sirs, The planet is facing an extremely dangerous and potentially globally devastating situation in the Middle East as I write. My Country, the United States of America, has seen its key policy-making institutions hijacked in the last few years by a cadre of irrational and emotionally possessed individuals bonded together into what is well-known in the mass media as the Neocon Movement. They have a declared agenda of world hegemony that we are all quite familiar with by now, conveniently typed up in the original Project for a New American ...
Open Letter to Fox News
Post Date: 2007-09-07 16:10:39 by catcher
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Open Letter to Fox News: Thursday, September 06, 2007 Last night during the debate Fox News and Sean Hannity displayed an extreme amount of discourtesy and disrespect to not only the Republican Presidential candidates but also the American people. There was a very clear bias towards several individuals on stage. Sen. Brownback and Congressman Ron Paul received very little air time in comparison to the other candidates on stage. Rudy Giuliani was allowed much more talk time as well as additional talk time after the bell than any other candidate on stage. The moderator would ask all the candidates their opinion on issues, i.e., taxes or Gitmo and ignore only Ron Paul’s completely ...
Its funny...GOP congressmen are now just as moral as bathroom trolling George Michaels.
Post Date: 2007-09-07 08:51:55 by gengis gandhi
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And dammit that is funny....all the bumpersticker christian crowd, utterly convicted as being witless fools, and not even honest fools at that. Yes indeed, the GOP is now just as moral as the bathroom trolling repulsive pig George Michaels, of Wham! fame, who was busted months ago, twice, for solicitation of sex from another man in a public restroom. Now thats fucking sexy folks. If nothing weaves the spell of romance and sweet desire like a public toilet, then check the nearest garbage dump for your local GOP representative where he is undoubtedly doing the people's work, on the taxpayers dime, with balls across his nose.
Ron Paul and Shawn Hannity
Post Date: 2007-09-06 22:36:11 by tom007
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Tough Political Talk with Red State Update
Post Date: 2007-09-06 21:02:57 by tom007
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NY Times Calls For Ban on Touch-Screen Voting
Post Date: 2007-09-06 12:24:03 by angle
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Says 'Electronic Voting Has Been an Abysmal Failure,' Calls on Congress to Add DRE Ban to Rush Holt's Election Reform Bill... In an editorial for Thursday's paper, the New York Times has finally called for an all-out ban on touch-screen voting machines. Writing that "electronic voting has been an abysmal failure," the newspaper of record --- which has been an abysmal failure, overall, in investigating and reporting on election-related issues over the past many years --- opines in favor of the flawed Rush Holt Election Reform Bill, though aptly declares that "The bill lacks one important thing: a ban on touch-screen voting machines." They add that ...
Distortion
Post Date: 2007-09-06 10:32:56 by ghostdogtxn
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The Politics of Blind Hatred - Who Are the Fanatics?
Post Date: 2007-09-05 20:48:10 by Dakmar
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President Jimmy Carter was demonized for pointing out in his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, that there are actually two sides to the Israeli-Palestinian issue. Distinguished American scholars, such as John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt have suffered the same fate for documenting the excessive influence the Israel Lobby has on US foreign policy. Americans would be astonished at the criticisms in the Israeli press of the Israeli government's policies toward the Palestinians and Arabs generally. In Israel facts are still part of the discussion. If the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, could replace Fox "News," CNN, New York Times and Washington Post, Americans would know the ...
W., Uncovered
Post Date: 2007-09-04 23:00:29 by robin
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today's blogsW., UncoveredBy Morgan SmithPosted Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2007, at 6:25 PM ET Bloggers parse Robert Draper's new book on the Bush administration and blast big pharma over a sharp increase in diagnoses of bipolar disorder among children. Also, David and Goliath analogies abound in the wake of Appalachian State's gridiron victory over Michigan.W., Uncovered: Dead Certain, the new book by journalist Robert Draper, quotes President Bush as saying he wanted to keep Iraq's military intact, but former Coalition Provisional Authority head L. Paul Bremer has provided letters to the New York Times that he says contradict Bush's statement. Bloggers pounce at the chance to ...
Bush: "I'll Give Some Speeches, Just to Replenish the Ol' Coffers."
Post Date: 2007-09-04 19:46:09 by Brian S
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Just when you feel impenetrably numb to the delusional ravings of our Punk In Chief, comes a sentence so multilayered in obscenity, so richly textured with arrogance and solipsism as to make Ayn Rand look like Albert Schweitzer. Let's put aside the coffers of thousands of Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis now eternally empty. Let's put aside the refugees who left their coffers behind when they fled. Let's put aside the amputees at Walter Reed who can no longer grip their coffers. Let's even put aside that his major domestic initiative centers on denying health care to children whose coffers exceed twice the poverty limit. No, for any student of the career of George ...
Voice of the White House 3 September
Post Date: 2007-09-04 13:40:23 by Eoghan
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Washington, D.C. September 1, 2007: 60;With a transparency that is awe-inspiring, the Administration is cranking out the scare stories about invading Iran. Paid bloggers and a very obedient press are flooding us with 56;confidential57; and endless 56;inside leaks57; that yes, children, we are going to invade Iran any day now. Stories about massing helicopters, serious secret ship movements, new shipments arriving every hour in Baghdad of bunker bombs and so on pour forth from the word processors in the Pentagon The problem is, these pathetic liars have been shrieking 56;wolf57; for so long that at this point, while the 56;red alert57; days and the 56;duct tape57; warnings have faded away ...
George W. Bush looks to the future (GAG ALERT)
Post Date: 2007-09-04 08:09:57 by tom007
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George W. Bush looks to the future By: Nicole Belle @ 2:21 PM - PDT george-w-bush-10-04-06.jpg I read this article at The New York Times (reg. req’d) on Sunday morning and it upset me so much that I knew I’d have to do a post on it. I showed it to a couple of friends and got similar reactions. Author Robert Draper was given rare access to the president and his inner circle for a book that I can only assume the White House thought would be sympathetic. So then the question becomes are they so out of touch that they think this is a sympathetic characterization?: (I)n an interview with a book author in the Oval Office one day last December, he daydreamed about the next phase of ...
Gen. Batiste’s Op-Ed That The WSJ And The Washington Times Didn’t Want You To See «
Post Date: 2007-09-03 14:32:43 by tom007
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Gen. Batiste’s Op-Ed That The WSJ And The Washington Times Didn’t Want You To See « Our guest blogger is Ret. Maj. Gen. John Batiste, the former Commanding General of 1st Infantry Division. For my first post here at ThinkProgress, I thought I would share something a little different from what you usually read here — something from a conservative perspective. I think this is especially fitting, given the new poll of foreign policy experts by Foreign Policy Magazine and the Center for American Progress, which shows 64 percent of conservative analysts feel the so-called “surge” in Iraq is having no impact, or a negative effect. The following is an op-ed I wrote ...
FOCUS IRAQ : SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS
Post Date: 2007-09-03 12:56:47 by tom007
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FOCUS IRAQ : SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS There are no main images. The armies of Iraq Four years ago the fighting in Iraq was just beginning. The armed group al-Qaeda in Iraq did not even exist and Sunni and Shia groups were working together against the US-led forces. Three years ago, sectarian divisions escalated into a battle some believe has reached civil war proportions. Now the fighters have turned against each other. This year has seen Shia infighting on the streets of Iraqi cities such as Karbala and Sunni armed groups fighting to keep al-Qaeda out of their regions. In a series of exclusive reports, Al Jazeera's Hoda Abdel Hamid reports on the new reality ...
Iraq war marches onto centre stage at Venice film fest
Post Date: 2007-09-01 15:13:12 by tom007
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Iraq war marches onto centre stage at Venice film fest 9 hours ago VENICE, Italy (AFP) — The Iraq war has emerged as the big topic at this year's Venice film festival, with a film Saturday by an award-winning Canadian director showing the harrowing toll the conflict is taking on returning US soldiers. Coming just one day after "Redacted", Brian De Palma's dramatisation laying out the shocking facts of a rape and multiple murder in Iraq, Paul Haggis was unveiling "In the Valley of Elah", also inspired by true events, this time on US soil. Like "Redacted", it explores the conditions, attitudes and stresses experienced by US soldiers in Iraq, and, ...
Voice of the White House 31 August
Post Date: 2007-09-01 12:59:43 by Eoghan
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Washington, D.C., August 30, 2007: There have been many deliberately leaked rumors about a projected attack on Iran. Believe that Israel desperately wants this and Cheney is firmly, and deeply, in their pocket over the issue of our attacking their enemies. Bush wants to go along, believing a great surge of patriotic support would be forthcoming from the adoring public and that he could end his tenure in the White House in a blaze of public adulation and military glory. He does actually believe this stupidity and is entirely capable of ordering at attack. At this writing, the talk is that he is setting up plans for the Air Force to bomb Tehran back into the stone age. This way, Bush reasons ...
9/11: Share your thoughts (Newspaper asks for input about 9/11)
Post Date: 2007-09-01 03:56:40 by Artisan
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http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/life/abox/article_1823378.php Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9/11: Share your thoughts 9/11: your thoughts? Six years have passed since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, shook our nation to its roots, pulling us together and tearing us apart at the same time. For those who lost family and friends, the journey from there to here is marked by a personal pain. But for the rest, what? What does 9/11 mean now? We'd like to hear your perspective. What do you feel when you look back – and when you look forward – from the viewpoint of whatever we've learned? Send your thoughts in 500 words or less to life@ocregister.com. We might publish your ...
Ron Paul on the Red State Update
Post Date: 2007-08-31 22:46:46 by tom007
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hfRqNy4Nng&NR=1
Fisk's Latest Book Refutes The Official Narrative Of History
Post Date: 2007-08-31 21:13:28 by tom007
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Fisk's Latest Book Refutes The Official Narrative Of History Posted: 2005/10/12 From: Dabrowska Veteran Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk wrote his latest book "The Great War for Civilisation - The conquest of the Middle East" to refute the narrative of history that is laid down by prime ministers, ministers and 'our betters' and to constantly challenge authority. Veteran Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk wrote his latest book "The Great War for Civilisation - The conquest of the Middle East" to refute the narrative of history that is laid down by prime ministers, ministers and 'our betters' and to constantly challenge authority. Fisk was ...
My Story - By Army National Guard Spc. Eleonai "Eli" Israel
Post Date: 2007-08-31 20:57:49 by tom007
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My Story By Army National Guard Spc. Eleonai "Eli" Israel 098/30/07 "Courage To Resist" --- - Two months ago, I took a stand that changed my life forever. As a Soldier, a JVB Protective Service Agent, and a Sniper with the Army who had been in Iraq for a year (running over 250 combat missions), I refused to continue to be a part of the occupation. I regret nothing. This is my story. Currently, as I write this I am sitting in Kuwait, on "stand-by" to return to the States sometime hopefully this week. After getting out of the brig last week, I’m now scheduled to be discharged from the Army within the month. I'm looking forward to joining forces with ...
The Voice of the White House-August 26, 2007
Post Date: 2007-08-31 19:27:44 by gengis gandhi
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The Voice of the White House Washington, D.C., August 26, 2007: “White House staff members are informed that they are not to use any AT&T, SBC or AOL system to send any messages dealing with official issues. Why is this? Because these entities report directly to government agencies, giving them, on a strictly voluntary basis, reams of information on their subscribers to include taped conversations, records of incoming and outgoing calls and, most especially any incoming or outgoing calls from outside the United States. These firms volunteered to supply governmental agencies with all of this information and, in some cases, have permitted government agents to operate freely inside ...
Labor Day Hypocrisy
Post Date: 2007-08-31 07:18:19 by Stephen Lendman
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Labor Day Hypocrisy - by Stephen Lendman Labor Day is commemorated on the first Monday in September each year since the first one was celebrated in New York in 1882. Around the world outside the US, socialist and labor movements are observed on May 1 to recognize organized labor's social and economic achievements and the workers in them. This day gets scant attention in the US, but where it's prominent it's commonly to remember the Haymarket Riot of May 4, 1886 in Chicago. It followed the city's May 1 general strike for an eight hour day that led to violence breaking out on the 4th. Labor Day became a national federal holiday when Congress passed legislation for it in ...
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